Grief

How to Communicate with Someone Who Can No Longer Speak

Years ago, I stumbled upon a video that remains vivid in my mind. In it, an elderly couple who had spent a...

Deciding whether to tell someone who is cognitively impaired that their spouse has died is a serious and often recurring struggle. Dementia...

Nearly everyone involved in caring for an ill or aging loved one is experiencing some degree of grief. However, we don’t usually...

One day while I was working at my newspaper job, the phone rang. It was the head nurse at Dad’s nursing home....

The mission of hospice providers is to help people live their last months or weeks of life in the most comfortable, dignified...

While death rarely brings pleasant feelings, from time to time we’ll see a story about death go viral on the Internet because...

Many caregivers watch their loved ones endure a long, slow decline that will eventually end in death. As they age, we grieve...

Many of us feel honored to provide care for our aging parents or ill spouses, but this honor can also present serious...

Dear Carol: My mom has advanced lung disease as well as late-stage Alzheimer’s. We know that there are no cures for either...

When the paperwork was finally signed to get hospice care for my dad, I was grateful. There would now be a routine...